Takeaways from The Associated Press' report on lost shipping containers
Most of the world’s everyday goods and raw materials moved over long distances are packed in large metal boxes the size of tractor-trailers and stacked on ships
By CHRISTINA LARSON, HELEN WIEFFERING and MANUEL VALDES
Published - Oct 03, 2024, 12:10 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:40 PM EST
LONG BEACH, Wash. (AP) — From clothes to metals used for manufacturing, most of the world’s everyday goods and raw materials moved over long distances are packed in large metal boxes the size of tractor-trailers and stacked on ships. Millions of containers cross the oceans every year. Not everything gets to its destination.
The Associated Press looked at what happens to the thousands of shipping containers that fall off ships and are lost at sea.
Sometimes hundreds of shipping containers are lost at once in storms or wrecks. Sometimes just a few containers go overboard.
